What happened to Slitherine multiplayer???

[Oleg Mastruko]

I spent couple hours to play turns in all my three server based PBEMs, yet the server shows my name highlighted as if it's my turn?!

None of my opponent got the notification it's their turn, so everything I did was apparently lost????

I played regular turns, like I always do, clicked End Turn, and the game went through the saving and sending process, I never got any info that something is wrong. It all seemed to work as before.

My server name is Samsonov. It all happened last night ie some ten hours ago. Please check what happened.

[Apollo11]

Hi all,

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko

I spent couple hours to play turns in all my three server based PBEMs, yet the server shows my name highlighted as if it's my turn?!

None of my opponent got the notification it's their turn, so everything I did was apparently lost????

I played regular turns, like I always do, clicked End Turn, and the game went through the saving and sending process, I never got any info that something is wrong. It all seemed to work as before.

My server name is Samsonov. It all happened last night ie some ten hours ago. Please check what happened.

Darn Oleg... [:(]

Can you write to them?


Leo "Apollo11"

[ComradeP]

A while ago, my turn to notenome was also mysteriously lost, although that might've been due to their server changes at the time which were also causing problems for other people.

A notification that the server has received the turn would be welcome, as well as a feature that stores the save on the hard drive in some encrypted form if it can't reach the server.

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Can you write to them?

I did, even though a post here should be enough.

No answer yet. It is my impression they don't seem to care all that much for WITE MP; which is implemented only as an after thought.

I don't play a single turn anymore until I get an official reply.

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: ComradeP
A notification that the server has received the turn would be welcome, as well as a feature that stores the save on the hard drive in some encrypted form if it can't reach the server.

Indeed. Lets add that to the list of features never even commented on by Slitherine.

[JAMiAM]

ORIGINAL: Oleg Mastruko

ORIGINAL: Apollo11
Can you write to them?

I did, even though a post here should be enough.

No answer yet. It is my impression they don't seem to care all that much for WITE MP; which is implemented only as an after thought.

I don't play a single turn anymore until I get an official reply.

Hi Oleg,

You might try sending a PM to pipfromslitherine (search the members database here) and see if he gets notified by the forum software about this predicament. He seems to have been the active voice from Slitherine in this forum. Good luck.

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: JAMiAM
You might try sending a PM to pipfromslitherine (search the members database here) and see if he gets notified by the forum software about this predicament. He seems to have been the active voice from Slitherine in this forum. Good luck.

I PM'ed pipfromslitherine this morning, still waiting for an answer.

[raizer]

last night I got my turn around 10pm (est) did about 1/3 of it-and finished it up this morning (9am est) and sent it off...and all appears fine.

What time did you get your games oleg and send them off?

I hope they are retrievable because we all know how much time goes into a turn

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: raizer

last night I got my turn around 10pm (est) did about 1/3 of it-and finished it up this morning (9am est) and sent it off...and all appears fine.

What time did you get your games oleg and send them off?

I hope they are retrievable because we all know how much time goes into a turn

Between 2 and 5 AM saturday, central euro time.

I could live with three lost turns in a gigantic campaign, provided I know why it happened, and that it does not happen again, plus that IF and WHEN it happens I see some sort of error message informing me what went on.

[2ndACR]

Sucks, my opponent did not receive the turn I sent him yesterday but that is a old school PBEM so I just re-sent it.

Oleg, have you tried to run our game turn? It shows to be your turn and check to see if it is the same one you did?

[Oleg Mastruko]

ORIGINAL: 2ndACR

Sucks, my opponent did not receive the turn I sent him yesterday but that is a old school PBEM so I just re-sent it.

Oleg, have you tried to run our game turn? It shows to be your turn and check to see if it is the same one you did?

I tried it's the same turn I already played, it shows the situation at the beginning of my last turn, my last turn is obviously completely lost.

Slitherine apparently does not have any technical support over weekend (don't know about Matrix, but this is issue on Slitherine part anyway) so nothing can be done until monday I guess.

[2ndACR]

That sucks big time.......I was ready to spank you so hard too. LOL

[Oleg Mastruko]

I have no mental strength to re do three MASSIVE turns, at least not until I hear officially that's what I should do, plus what happened, why, and how to avoid it in future.

I certainly hope someone will respond to this in near future (ie monday).

[2ndACR]

I hope so too......almost to the winter, and time for your payback.

[Joel Billings]

Sorry to hear about your problem with the server. I checked your games and you are listed as the current player in all but one of your 5 games (one on turn 1 shows 2ACR as the current player). The most recent change date listed is Jan 28, turn 15 in one game and turn 10 in the other.

Have you tried saving a turn in progress and seeing if that works?

I've emailed Pip and hopefully he can help out.

[Oleg Mastruko]

Of 5 games you see on my account 3 games are real, 2 games with 2ACR were stopped on turn 1 because they weren't even started really (they can be deleted) we were polishing the details and trying the system.

As for the current three games you see exactly what I see, me as current player, but it should not be so. I played three massive turns, clicked end turn, and the computer went thru saving/sending process, for each of the three turns. The saving/sending process takes a minute or something like that, as it has to send a 3 MB file up to the server. It all went like that, no error message, no nothing.

I'd really like to hear about possible explanations for this from Slith guys.....

[Oleg Mastruko]

Bumping this, still no reply.....

[CarnageINC]

Ahhh.....technology at its finest, sorry to read your problems Oleg.  I'm just glad I went old school for my pbem games.  Good luck sir....by the way I miss your old avatar and her nice smile [8D]

[Oleg Mastruko]

My avatar might make a comeback. She got on my nerves when I posted a lot (and seen her next to my babbling), but now I kinda miss her go figure LOL [:D]

I should put her in a sig or something, but first I need to get this Slitherine thing resolved. I cannot imagine going through the game, playing every turn, then going through "C&C check" where your turn might save, or it might not, rendering whole work futile.

If it's not saved on the server, ANYTHING is preferred to what I experienced... an error message, backup saved locally, anything...

Well, I hope Slith guys had a nice weekend, but I do expect a priority reply early monday morning....

[Joel Billings]

Oleg I've been told that the key Slitherine person is away for a few days. I've been in contact with our programmer on the multiplayer and with other Slitherine personnel but we may need to wait until Pip returns to get more info on this.

Can you confirm that the following is what happened:

1. Access server screen, get game and challenge list from server - all ok.
2. download game #1 from server - all ok.
3. Play turn, upload back to server - seems to save ok
4. Return to main menu, access server screen, get game list again - all
ok.
5. Download game #2 from server - all ok.
6. Play turn, upload back to server - seems to save ok
7. Return to main menu, access server screen, get game list again - all
ok.
8. Download game #3 from server - all ok.
9. Play turn, upload back to server - seems to save ok
10. None of the games have advanced their turn and you are still showing as the current player in all of the games.